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Japan: Armed forces ‘raised’ fighter jets after spotting Russian jets near its coast

Japan: Armed forces ‘raised’ fighter jets after spotting Russian jets near its coast

Japan today ordered them to take off fighter planes after spotting two Russian IDs aircraft near its shores, one in the Pacific Ocean and the other in the Sea of ​​Japan, the Japanese general staff said in a brief statement armed forces.

This episode, which is not the first of its kind, comes a few days after the participation of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky at the Summit of the Group of Seven (G7) most developed industrialized countries organized in Hiroshima (western Japan) and during it all its members G7 reiterated their support for Kiev to counter the Russian invasion.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that an IL-20 intelligence-gathering aircraft had been spotted flying from the Sea of ​​Okhotsk to the Peaceful and back again, and another IL-20 flying towards the sea area near Santo Island, before turning inland.

Source: News Beast